Keeping faith

An eye-opening documentary recalls the media frenzy surrounding George Michael coming out as gay

- CAREN CLARK, NATASHA HOLT, IAN MACEWAN, SEAN MARLAND

NEW FACTUAL

George Michael: Outed
Mon & Tue, 9pm, C4 (box set, All 4)

George Michael’s arrest by an undercover cop for engaging in a lewd act in an LA public toilet in April 1998 became the showbiz story of the decade and created a tabloid storm.

Now, 25 years on, C4’s two-part documentary George Michael: Outed explores the long-lasting consequences of the incident, and the late pop star’s groundbreaking reaction to it, by using archive interviews with the singer, as well as speaking to his friends and journalists who reported on the story.